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THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
FALL
2020
i T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0
The University of The University of Wisconsin Press
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Wisconsin Cocktails
JEANETTE HURT
Brandy, bitters, and history
“Hurt’s definitive guide effortlessly toggles between history, journalism,
and sociology to capture the breezy idiosyncrasies of Wisconsin bars
and the peculiar imbibing conventions of their loyal patrons with an
earnestness that reads like a Coen Brothers script if you’re nonnative or
a Ken Burns documentary if you are. As a proud former resident of the
Badger State, who came of age and learned my craft there, I’m thrilled to
see the varied state of Wisconsin’s legendary drinking traditions—both
new and old—portrayed patriotically in every tint of local color.”
—Jim Meehan, author of Meehan’s Bartender Manual COOKING—BARTENDING
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Cocktails have always had a stronghold in America’s Dairyland. This highly 280 PP. | 5½ × 7½ | 60 COLOR PHOTOS
ISBN 978-0-299-32880-1 | CASEBOUND | $29.95
illustrated volume uncovers the true stories behind the state’s obsession
with brandy, ice cream drinks, and a smorgasbord of garnishes.
Beyond delving into mythic origins of several classic creations, Jeanette “Though most of us think of
Hurt introduces a new generation of cocktails that offer a spin on standard Wisconsin beer, we should be
thinking of Wisconsin cocktails!
concoctions. She explores the state’s unique farm-to-table ethos influenced
Jeanette Hurt’s book is a lively
by an abundance of locally sourced ingredients. Also included are a wealth
roundup of tipples, toddies, and
of interviews with notable mixologists, sharing numerous favorite recipes
tonics that will keep you warm in
for specialty pick-me-ups that connoisseurs and home bartenders alike the winter and refreshed in the
will be clamoring to try. A definitive account of the beverages we love, summer. Even the spiritfree will
Wisconsin Cocktails insists we order our Old Fashioneds the right way delight in Hurt’s gem.”—Cameron M.
—with brandy. Ludwick, coauthor of The State of Bourbon:
Exploring the Spirit of Kentucky
JEANET TE HURT, an award-winning food and beverage
writer, is the drinking culture columnist for Forbes and the
cheese and spirits contributor for Milwaukee Public Radio’s
Lake Effect. Her books include Drink Like a Woman, The Joy
of Cider: All You Ever Wanted to Know about Drinking and
Making Hard Cider, and The Cheeses of Wisconsin: A Culinary
Travel Guide.
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of Pies and Other Recipes from the Norske Nook
Jerry Bechard and Cindee Helen Myhre with Mona Vold
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Cheese
The Making of a Wisconsin Tradition
S EC O N D E D I T I O N
JERRY APPS
The definitive history of the state’s finest product
“Captures the personalities, challenges, and inventiveness in Wisconsin’s
150-year-old cheesemaking tradition. Apps shines a light on the passion
that dairy farmers and cheesemakers bring to their work every morning
before dawn. He understands that dairy is a lifestyle that defines an
industry, and is the foundation of the hard-working, hard-playing ethos in
Wisconsin.”—John Umhoefer, executive director, Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association
HISTORY Wisconsin has not always been the dairy state, but cheese is a notable part
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of its heritage. Capturing the voices of farmers, milk haulers, makers, and
288 PP. | 6 × 9 | 70 COLOR ILLUS.
ISBN 978-0-299-32924-2 | PAPER | $27.95 graders, Jerry Apps provides a rich view into the history of cheese in the state,
beginning with its humble origins in farmhouse kitchens. As he explores the
“An entertaining account of extraordinary diversity of cheese products, he peppers his lively narrative with
how cheese has ruled Wisconsin. obscure lore.
Jerry Apps has added another In this updated edition of a classic, Apps examines tumultuous changes in
exemplary chapter to his the business over the past twenty years, including the impacts of corporate
Wisconsin chronicles.” megafarms and the rise of artisanal producers. Vivid historical photographs
—Wisconsin Magazine of History and striking portraits of modern family-operated factories reveal the delicate
balance between art and science that goes into the process of turning
ordinary milk into a wide variety of flavors, from the ubiquitous cheddar to
sublime delicacies. Through these stories, we can come to better appreciate
the remarkable farmers and producers that shaped cheesemaking into the
thriving industry it is today
JERRY APPS is the author of more than forty books on
rural America and the Upper Midwest, including The Land
Still Lives, Simple Things, and Breweries of Wisconsin. He has
appeared in five documentaries produced by Wisconsin
Public Television based on his books and is a professor
emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
ALSO BY JERRY APP S
Breweries of Wisconsin, In a Pickle: A Family Farm Story
Second Edition
ISBN 978-0-299-22304-5
ISBN 978-0-299-20654-3 PAPER $16.95
PAPER $27.95
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As the Twig Is Bent
A Memoir
WALLACE BYRON GRANGE
E D I T E D BY J O S E P H L . B R E I T E N S T E I N A N D R I C H A R D P. T H I E L
“The objective of civilization is to escape from it while yet enjoying its largess.”
“Original and refreshing, reminiscent of the poignant writings of Increase
Lapham, Fran Hamerstrom, and John Muir. Grange does a superb job of
portraying societal life a century ago in Illinois, and the pioneering life of
the Grange family in the ‘cutover country’ in northern Wisconsin.”
—Sumner Matteson, author of Afield: Portraits of Wisconsin Naturalists, Empowering
Leopold’s Legacy
Wallace Byron Grange (1905–87) was an influential conservationist who
MEMOIR
worked alongside Aldo Leopold. Grange’s story vividly describes his mostly SEPTEMBER | LC: 2020004272 QH
idyllic childhood watching bird life in the once grand prairies just west of 328 PP. | 6 × 9 | 34 B/W PHOTOS, 3 MAPS
ISBN 978-0-299-32950-1 | CLOTH | $29.95
Chicago. He documents his family’s journey and pioneering struggle to
operate a farm on the logged cutover country in northern Wisconsin, a land
that provided him with abundant opportunities to study the lives of wild “An engaging memoir of the making
creatures he loved most. of a devoted conservationist,
Written when Grange was in his sixties, As the Twig Is Bent conveys how a evocative of the unhurried pace of
leading conservationist was formed through his early relationship to nature. a bygone era. Grange shares with
us a voluminous, detailed treasure
In beautifully composed vignettes, he details encounters both profound
trove of experiences that reveal the
and minute, from the white-footed mice attracted by cookie crumbs in his
making of a man who dedicated his
boyhood clubhouse to the sounds of great horned owls echoing through the
life to the cause of conservation.”
wintry woods. As he develops his own understanding of the natural world, he —Arthur Melville Pearson, author of Force
comes to an awareness of the dramatic and devastating role of humankind on of Nature
ecosystems. Grange’s poignant observations still resonate today amid global
conversations about the fate of our natural resources and climate change.
JOSEPH L. BREITENSTEIN is a licensed psychologist and professor at
Luther College. His professional interests include the intersections between
psychology and environmentalism. RICHARD P. THIEL is active with the Timber
Wolf Information Network and the International Wolf Center. His books include
Keepers of the Wolves and Wild Wolves We Have Known.
OF REL ATED INTEREST
Farm Girl: A Wisconsin Memoir Force of Nature: George Fell, Founder
Beuna Coburn Carlson of the Natural Areas Movement
ISBN 978-0-299-32754-5
Arthur Melville Pearson
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All Abroad
A Memoir of Travel and Obsession
GEOFFREY WEILL
A place where we are all passengers and guests
“If like me, you adhere to the adage that it’s the journey and not the
destination that matters, then this utterly fascinating tale of a man’s
obsessive travel and obsession with every detail of traveling is the book
for you! But this is so much more than just a glamorous travelogue. It’s a
tender memoir of an eccentric family scattered across the globe, a searing
commentary on institutionalized antisemitism, and a celebration of the life
of a joyous nomad named Geoffrey Weill.”—Alan Cumming
MEMOIR
Yearning for an escape from a claustrophobic childhood, Geoffrey Weill
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240 PP. | 6 × 9 | 31 B/W ILLUS. became infatuated with travel. At twenty-three, the budding British
ISBN 978-0-299-33080-4 | CLOTH | $28.95 connoisseur made his way across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. The year
was 1973, and he was bound for New York to pursue a promising role as
consultant-in-training at the headquarters of the world’s oldest travel
“Like a telegram from a long-lost agency, Thomas Cook. The idyllic trip was reminiscent of those from the early
and infinitely more glamorous era,
twentieth century but made distinctly modern by a nightly reminder—at the
All Abroad evokes the thrill and
onboard dance club, one was sure to run into a sequin-clad David Bowie.
mystery of travel without an ounce
All Abroad is the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting
of nostalgia. Yes, there are the
grandest of hotels, ocean liners, and there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into his
Swiss trains in this book but also entertaining anecdotes is an informative account of a lost era in travel. As a
incidents of cruel discrimination witness to compelling and monumental changes in the industry, Weill offers
and heartbreaking family secrets— a unique view into how our vacations have been shaped deeply by human
all from one of the godfathers of the trends, tragedies, and technologies. While some long for the grandeur of
modern travel business, Geoffrey tourism from decades ago, Weill insists that travel—the conveyances and
Weill. Absolutely brilliant.” hotels that await journey’s end—remains as glamorous as ever.
—Luke Barr, New York Times best-selling
author of Provence, 1970
GEOFFREY WEILL is a widely published travel writer and
photographer and has visited more than 100 countries.
He is the founder and president of WEILL, an award-winning
tourism and travel-related public relations and marketing
company, and was honored with the HSMAI Lifetime
Achievement Award in 2014.
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Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers The Black Penguin
in Search of the Muse Andrew Evans
Edited by Brian Bouldrey
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The Black
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I Give You Half the Road
CAROL SPINDEL
Strangers become guests, and guests become family
“Written in an accessible and engaging narrative nonfiction style, this
book shares the story of five young people who come of age during
the tumultuous democratic transition in Ivory Coast. Spindel’s honest
storytelling, close friendships with everyday Ivoirians, and more than
thirty-five years of experience in the country shine in this riveting
account.”—William Moseley, Macalester College
In Ivory Coast, the farewell “I give you half the road” is an expression of
hospitality, urging a departing guest to come back again. After their first stay
in a welcoming rural community in 1981, Carol Spindel and her husband AFRICAN STUDIES / MEMOIR
did just that. Over the course of decades, they built a house and returned JANUARY | LC: 2020017796 DT
frequently, deepening their relationships with neighbors. 328 PP. | 6 × 9 | 14 B/W ILLUS., 2 MAPS
ISBN 978-0-299-33050-7 | CLOTH | $36.95 A
Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was
split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and
a violent conflict. Spindel provides an intimate glimpse into this turbulent
period by weaving together the daily lives and paths of five neighbors. Their
stories reveal Ivorians determined to reunite a divided country through
reliance on mutual respect and obligation even while power-hungry
politicians pursued xenophobic and anti-immigrant platforms for personal
gain. Illuminating democracy as a fragile enterprise that must be continually
invented and reinvented, I Give You Half the Road emphasizes the importance
of connection, generosity, and forgiveness
CAROL SPINDEL is the author of In the Shadow of the Sacred
Grove and Dancing at Halftime: Sports and the Controversy
over American Indian Mascots. She taught at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for more than twenty-five years
and currently teaches at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
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The Toni Morrison Book Club I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My
Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown- Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army
Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, and Evelyn Amony
Piper Kendrix Williams Edited and with an introduction
ISBN 978-0-299-32494-0
by Erin Baines
PAPER $17.95
ISBN 978-0-299-30494-2
PAPER $26.95
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Now in paperback
Lithium Jesus
A Memoir of Mania
CHARLES MONROE-KANE
“Do more, be more, live more. And fear less.”
“In his debut, Monroe-Kane, a Peabody Award–winning public radio
producer, brings a fresh perspective to familiar memoir territory. . . .
A compelling account of wrestling with inner turmoil against gritty,
dramatic international settings."—Kirkus Reviews
“The mind of Charles Monroe-Kane crackles with a scary, exhilarating, manic,
and beautiful energy. His book left my mouth agape. His story bobs and
weaves, lulls readers into the right jab—then clocks us with a roundhouse.
MEMOIR Charles lives his story like no other, and he tells it like nobody else can.”
SEPTEMBER | LC: 2016012943 PN
—Glynn Washington, host of Snap Judgment
200 PP. | 5½ × 8¼
ISBN 978-0-299-31004-2 | PAPER | $16.95
Born into an eccentric Ohio clan of modern hunter-gatherers, Charles
CLOTH | 2016 | ISBN 978-0-299-31000-4
Monroe-Kane grew up hearing voices in his head. Over two dizzying
decades, he was many things—teenage faith healer, world traveler, smuggler,
liberation theologian, halibut hanger, grifter, environmental warrior, and circus
“For all the voices that once raged manager—all while wrestling with schizophrenia and self-medication. He burns
through his head, Charles Monroe- through his twenties and several bridges before finally saying, “Enough.”
Kane has finally found the true one: Blending charm with unflinching frankness, Lithium Jesus is Monroe-Kane’s
his own. With plainspoken honesty, testimony of mental illness, drug abuse, faith, and love.
he takes us through his raucous
mission to devour a world before
CHARLES MONROE-K ANE has won a Peabody Award for his
it devoured him, arriving finally at
work as a senior producer and interviewer for the program
the hard truth of salvation.”—David
To the Best of Our Knowledge, broadcast on 220 public radio
Giffels, author of The Hard Way on Purpose
stations. He has reported for National Public Radio’s Morning
Edition and All Things Considered.
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Money, Murder, and Dominick Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir
Dunne: A Life in Several Acts Courtney Kersten
Robert Hofler
ISBN 978-0-299-31700-3
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ISBN 978-0-299-31150-6
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The Poetry of Capital
Voices from Twenty-First-Century America
EDITED BY BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG AND CLARE ROSSINI
Rich, broke, and everything in-between
“Fresh, memorable, original. The coeditors have constructed a meaningful
and timely anthology that, in significant ways, gathers together a range of
poems about money and class structures in America.”—Judith Vollmer
What do we talk about when we talk about money? As the forty-four poets in
this brilliant new anthology show, the answer is everything. From the impact
of global economic crises to local tag sales, from the subversive effects of dark
money on politics to the freedom granted by a summer job, from sweatshops
POETRY
where our clothes are produced to the malls where they are sold, this volume JANUARY | LC: 2020017804 PS
gets to the heart of Americans’ relationships to capital as only poetry can. 254 PP. | 6 × 9 | 44 B/W PHOTOS
ISBN 978-0-299-33044-6 | PAPER | $22.95 A
Editors Benjamin S. Grossberg and Clare Rossini selected poems to reflect
broad themes of labor, history and economic forces, social equity, and the
environment. In addition, they asked each poet to provide a brief prose
“Money may be, as Denise Duhamel
comment to introduce their work. Some give broad statements on the nature
notes in her mini-essay, one of the
of wealth in America today; others are intimate, offering insight into how life last taboo subjects in the arts as
experiences inform their writing; still others reflect on the art of poetry itself well as in polite company, but that’s
and its unique power to speak to economic pressures of the moment. exactly what the forty-four diverse
Contributors include Mary Jo Bang, Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Alan Chazaro, and wide-ranging contemporary
Mark Doty, Denise Duhamel, Tony Hoagland, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dorianne American poets in this wonderful
Laux, Kimiko Hahn, Sharon Olds, George Perreault, Robert Pinsky, Minnie anthology so memorably explore—
Bruce Pratt, Afaa Michael Weaver, David Wojahn, and others. if by ‘money’ you mean everything
in our increasingly stressed
BENJAMIN S. GROSSBERG is the director of creative writing at the University
and stressful capitalist society
that money informs. There’s an
of Hartford. His books include Space Traveler and Sweet Core Orchard, winner
embarrassment of riches here.
of a Lambda Literary Award. His latest collection is My Husband Would.
You can bank on it.”—Ronald Wallace
CLARE ROSSINI is an artist-in-residence at Trinity College, where she teaches
classes in literature and creative writing and directs a program that places
Trinity students in core-city public school classrooms. Her books include
Lingo, Winter Morning with Crow, and Selections from the Claudia Poems.
OF REL ATED INTEREST
My
My Favorite Tyrants Blood Work
F av o r i t e
tyrants Joanne Diaz Matthew Siegel
ISBN 978-0-299-29784-8 ISBN 978-0-299-30404-1
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Joanne Diaz
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Winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Natasha Trethewey
Fractures
CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ
At the precipice of a divided social landscape
“Fractures teaches us the past is always inflecting the present. In poems
as charged as they are exquisitely made, Gómez offers us the chance to
appreciate searching for ‘the exact day / [he] stopped dreaming in the
language / that sings [his] name.’ But its true gift, its true power, is the way
it transforms loss and sadness into something triumphant.”—C. Dale Young
“Equal parts vision and prophecy . . . devastatingly precise, full of aching
desire for a complex past and nostalgia for the future yet to come. Gómez
is writing with an urgency for the most pressing issues of our time. This is a
voice that demands to be heard.”—Tina Chang, author of Hybrida
POETRY
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In his landmark debut, Carlos Andrés Gómez interrogates race, gender,
104 PP. | 6 × 9
ISBN 978-0-299-32994-5 | PAPER | $16.95 sexuality, and violence to explore some of the most pressing issues of our
time. These poems address the complexities and nuances of toxic masculinity,
assimilation, homophobia, and the joy and anguish of trying to raise Black
Wisconsin Poetry Series children in America. Gómez casts an uncompromising eye toward both
Edited by Ronald Wallace and Sean Bishop brutality and tenderness, going where we are most uncomfortable and
lingering in moments of introspection that reveal fear, grief, or hatred. Birthed
“Gómez writes poems of at a breaking point, these poems carve open silence, revealing fissures that
unswerving conviction that also welcome the light. Unflinching, poignant, and powerful, Fractures is both a
shine on the page, poems that gut punch and a balm.
emerge from the very nucleus
of human experience. With The boy was done
compelling honesty and accuracy, with being shadow, dust film on boot
he reveals the fissures of the lip—wanted to be luminous. Sometimes a life
mind and the heart. In articulate splinters to break. To scatter.
To be.
and masterfully written poems,
—Excerpt from “Race was not a factor”
he has given us a redemptive
vision.”—Rodney Jones, Pulitzer Prize CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ is the author of the memoir
in Poetry finalist
Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood. His work has been
featured in numerous publications, including New England
Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and BuzzFeed Reader.
RECENT WINNERS OF THE FELIX POLL AK PRIZE IN POE TRY
Ganbatte WI NNER O F THE FELI X P O LLAK P O E TRY P RI ZE
Why Can’t It Be Tenderness
Sarah Kortemeier Michelle Brittan Rosado
WHY
CAN’T
ISBN 978-0-299-32514-5 IT BE
ISBN 978-0-299-31994-6
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MICHELLE
BRITTAN
ROSADO
8 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Winner of the Brittangham Prize in Poetry, selected by Natasha Trethewey
Perigee
DIANE KERR
Uncovering and reckoning with a shocking past
“World building of the highest, most authentic order. The precise language
of these poems lands us hard in the saddle of this singular midcentury,
midwestern horse girl’s world—Kerr makes us see it, unflinchingly, as if it
were our very own.”—Celeste Gainey, author of The Gaffer
In these visceral poems, Diane Kerr reckons with dark trauma. Retracing
memories from girlhood that she once felt compelled to keep secret,
perspectives shift as the lens of adulthood brings the past into sharp clarity.
Moments are revealed in layers; we join the poet as she rides through POETRY
fields on horseback, watches a woman testify on television, and comes to OCTOBER | LC: 2020016449 PS
terms with her experiences of sexual abuse. Vivid recollections of emotionally 112 PP. | 6 × 9
ISBN 978-0-299-33024-8 | PAPER | $16.95
charged minutiae—broken-in cowboy boots, the second button on a blouse,
a housecoat patterned with pink begonias—remind us how even the smallest
details can be fraught with both nostalgia and pain. Each poem wields power, Wisconsin Poetry Series
with resonating narratives of fear and survival reminding us that suffering has Edited by Ronald Wallace and Sean Bishop
no statute of limitations.
“A breathtaking sequence of
Inside the skull cage began poems about the lifelong trauma
years of battering to get out,
gray layers winding around
of abuse. This brave writer never
and around, tissue thin, accumulating, veers off path, never wavers. Kerr
solidifying, impossible to penetrate. reminds us of the fierce power of
—Excerpt from “Timbered” story, how it can shake us to the
core, raise us up, and save us.”
DIANE KERR is the author of Butterfly and a mentor for —Jan Beatty, author of Jackknife
poets through the Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing
Program at Carlow University. Her work has appeared in
Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Pearl, and Poetry
East, among others.
RECENT WINNERS OF THE BRIT TINGHA M PRIZE IN POE TRY
If the House How the End First Showed
Molly Spencer D. M. Aderibigbe
ISBN 978-0-299-32594-7 ISBN 978-0-299-31987-4
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9 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Minus One
DORIS IAROVICI
Pursuing connection in an uncertain world
“Iarovici’s compassionate, fiercely intelligent, and psychologically astute
Minus One portrays characters recovering from loss. Their unending
flexibility when things do not go as planned, their ability to witness turns
of emotion from bliss to rage to grief and parlay them into pathways
to change: these subtleties are stunningly portrayed and endlessly
insightful.”—Elizabeth Kadetsky, author of The Memory Eaters
“Minus One shows the deep power of grief in its infinite guises. In each
of these stories we see people facing life-altering loss: widows, children
of divorce, couples on the precipice of breakup. The writing is crisp and
FICTION original, the characters nuanced and engaging.”—Peter Grimes
NOVEMBER | LC: 2020016436 PS
144 PP. | 5½ × 8½ By turns wrenching, transcendent, and haunting, the rich stories in Minus
ISBN 978-0-299-33004-0 | PAPER | $17.95
One follow characters whose lives are upended by death, estrangement, and
loss—and the ways they must negotiate loneliness and absence to rebuild
“Minus One burns with a fiery, their new realities. In intimate portraits, a psychiatrist analyzes the missed
fierce empathy—in these stories, signs of her stepson’s dangerous addiction, a resentful boy seeks revenge
we find the most private strains against his stepmother, a surgeon confronts his failed marriages, an artist
of grief brought to the surface, searches for a new identity in widowhood, and a young dancer plots to
where they spark like a live wire. escape a manipulative older partner.
Iarovici is a master of details that Woven through this slim and powerful volume are astute observations on
get under your skin, of lines that how pain and grief can be inherited from one generation to the next. With
unexpectedly invert sympathy and
tenderness and honesty, Doris Iarovici explores the plunging depths of the
galvanize story, of quiet moments
human experience, lingering on moments of familial warmth and joy but
that reveal the amplitude of loss.”
never shying away from conflict and tension. These stories reveal glimmers of
—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too
Can Have a Body Like Mine hope and possibility, even in our darkest times.
DORIS IAROVICI is the author of American Dreaming
and Other Stories. Her writing has appeared in numerous
publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian,
and Crab Orchard Review. She works as a psychiatrist at
Harvard University.
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10 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Independence
EVAN BALKAN
We all need our secrets. . . .
“Balkan never flinches from exploring the moral complexity of the
choices his characters make. This deeply touching story moves seamlessly
between the past and the present, the truth and the need to hide it,
and all the while Balkan captivates us with the beauty of his prose.”
—Ed Perlman
Paris, South Dakota, summer 1976. Fifteen-year-old Lilly is crushed by the
news that her mother’s boyfriend will become her father, making her feel
lonelier and more invisible than ever. That same morning, she runs into Lee,
a handsome and mysterious stranger. It isn’t long before she takes off with
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“From the moment Lee walks onto
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Independence is an evocative story of true love, youthful mistakes, things are headed south. At play
desperation, and breath-taking betrayal. here are notions of escaping and
returning as acts of reclamation
EVAN BALK AN teaches at the Community College of of one’s own independence and
Baltimore County and is an instructor in the Teaching identity, guided by a masterful
Writing graduate program at Johns Hopkins University. storyteller.”—Gregg Wilhelm
He is the author of a novel, Spitfire, and many short stories
and essays.
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Sharon Harrigan Amy Hoffman
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The Body in Bodega Bay
BETSY DRAINE AND MICHAEL HINDEN
Does a lost masterpiece hold the key to a murder?
“Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden must be having a wonderful time
researching and writing their mystery series. It certainly is a lot of fun
reading their books.”—Capital Times
Life in Bodega Bay, famous as the setting for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds,
has been quiet for antiques dealer Toby Sandler—until his new business
partner is found dead in the harbor. Soon, the local sheriff discovers that
the victim’s recently acquired Hitchcock artifacts and a painting of an angel
have mysteriously vanished. Toby and his wife, art historian Nora Barnes,
are enlisted to aid the investigation. As they dig into tales of the area’s past
MYSTERY FICTION
and encounter perplexing clues that are both criminal and otherworldly, the
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232 PP. | 5½ × 8¼ couple contemplates whether some mysteries are too deep to solve.
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BETSY DRAINE and MICHAEL HINDEN are coauthors of
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the mystery series featuring Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler.
They coauthored the memoir A Castle in the Backyard:
A Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler The Dream of a House in France, translated The Walnut
Mystery Cookbook by Jean-Luc Toussaint, and are professors emeriti
of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
“If you’re a fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s
The Birds, you will thoroughly
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—Mystery Scene Magazine
“Colorful characters. . . .
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Eleven Miles to Oshkosh
JIM GUHL
Midwest Independent Book Award Winner
“Nostalgic, thrilling, and very engaging. . . . Guhl’s straightforward style
and unexpected plot twists, combined with a bit of Wisconsin history
and plenty of local flavor, make Eleven Miles to Oshkosh a memorable,
heartwarming and enjoyable debut.”—Milwaukee Magazine
As the Vietnam War grinds on and the Nixon presidency collapses, Del
“Minnow” Finwick’s small world in Wisconsin has blown apart. His father, a
deputy sheriff, has been murdered by the unknown “Highway 41 Killer.” His
mom has unraveled. And a goon named Larry Buskin has been pummeling
Minnow behind Neenah High. Minnow finds support in the company of his FICTION
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JIM GUHL grew up in the Fox Valley and now lives in
Hudson, Wisconsin. He is a writer and visual artist. “A nostalgia trip worth taking.”
—Isthmus
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remarkable. . . . Eleven Miles
will captivate readers of all ages.”
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—Craig Nova, author of The Good Son Across the Great Lake Starvation Shore
Lee Zacharias Laura Waterman
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13 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Now in paperback
Lava Falls
LUCY JANE BLEDSOE
Winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Fiction
“Riveting new collection. . . . Fully realized characters; stories that stick
to your ribs.”—Toronto Star
“By highlighting uncomfortable moments between characters and
showing their desperation, Bledsoe forces the reader to examine their
own humanity. It gives the prose a realness . . . and makes Bledsoe stand
out in a way we will remember.”—Lambda Literary
These stories are populated by people seeking to believe in themselves
and the world around them. A woman returns to the Alaskan cabin of her
FICTION
survivalist childhood, full of misgivings and memories. A trip to Yellowstone
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240 PP. | 6 × 9
sparks a crisis for a man who feels kinship with the wolves he glimpses
ISBN 978-0-299-31854-3 | PAPER | $17.95 there. A Grand Canyon rafting expedition profoundly changes the lives of six
women. Refusing to buckle under the pressures of family and political trauma,
CASEBOUND | 2018 | ISBN 978-0-299-31850-5 the sojourners in this collection are connected by their shared belief in love—
how we define it and how we are lifted by it.
“The characters are as untamed
LUCY JANE BLEDSOE is an award-winning author of fiction
at heart as the wildernesses they
and nonfiction, including the novels A Thin Bright Line and
explore and survive. . . . Bledsoe
is equally driven by curiosity and The Big Bang Symphony. She lives in Berkeley, California.
adventure and her writing has
the ability to take us along for the
(wild) ride.”—Advocate
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A Thin Bright Line The Big Bang Symphony:
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14 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Lysistrata
A New Verse Translation
ARISTOPHANES
T R A N S L AT E D BY DAV I D M U L R OY, W I T H I N T R O D U C T I O N A N D N OT E S
A fresh new translation of the classic battle-of-the-sexes comedy
“Mulroy has produced a clear, accessible, poetic version and as such
offers a good alternative to current prose translations and freer verse
translations.”—Robert Littman, translator of The Theban Plays
Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy,
was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; eleven
survive. The most famous of these is the whimsical fantasy Lysistrata. DRAMA / CLASSICS
A perennial classroom and stage favorite as well as the basis of Spike Lee’s DECEMBER | LC: 2020016437 PA
168 PP. | 5 × 8
Chi-Raq, the play is as relevant today as it was 2,500 years ago. The premise is ISBN 978-0-299-32984-6 | PAPER | $12.95 A
simplicity itself: to end the Peloponnesian War, women decide to withhold sex
from their husbands until the fighting stops.
Wisconsin Studies in Classics
The play is by turns raucous, bawdy, frantic, and funny. David Mulroy’s
exciting new translation retains the original’s verse format, racy jokes,
Praise for Mulroy’s previous verse translations
and vibrancy—setting it apart from previous efforts, which are typically
“[Agamemnon] could well become
reproduced as prose or depart from meaning and meter. His introduction
the standard text for students of
offers a concise summary of Aristophanes’ life and social milieu, including
classics in English, as pre-reading for
a brief overview of the Peloponnesian War, which took place during the those attempting the difficult Greek,
playwright’s lifetime. The appendices include guides on translating meter and and possibly as an acting version. . . .
Greek pronunciation for aspiring thespians. It is the best this reviewer has come
across.”—Classics for All
DAVID MULROY is a professor emeritus of classics at the University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee. An accomplished and lauded translator of Greek “The sheer elegance and beauty of
Mulroy’s verses [of Agamemnon]
drama, he has published English editions of The Complete Poetry of Catullus,
deserve the highest praise.”—Ex Class
Sophocles’ Theban trilogy—Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus—
and the three plays that make up The Oresteia by Aeschylus—Agamemnon, “A great work of world literature
Libation Bearers, and The Holy Goddesses. has at last become a great poem
in English. Mulroy’s translation
[of Oedipus Rex] is far superior
to other available English verse
translations.”—Robert J. Rabel
ALSO TR ANSL ATED BY DAVID MULROY
Oedipus Rex Agamemnon
Sophocles Aeschylus
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15 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Now in paperback
Keep the Wretches in Order
America’s Biggest Mass Trial, the Rise of the
Justice Department, and the Fall of the IWW
DEAN A. STRANG
Dissent was not just unpatriotic. It was criminal.
“Strang tells a great story of America’s struggle with fear and injustice
a century ago while asking us to consider, ‘What is the story of ourselves
that we write today?’ American workers still fight what the Wobblies
fought in 1918, as the Justice Department during WWI overreached
in ways similar to our current ‘war on terror.’ Dean is a great attorney and
a gifted writer, borrowing lessons from the past to help guide our future.”
—Alec Baldwin
HISTORY/LAW
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344 PP. | 6 × 9 | 20 B/W ILLUS. To prevent labor disruption during World War I, the U.S. Department of
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targeting of one of the nation’s largest unions—the Industrial Workers of
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the World—resulted in the largest mass trial in American history. As the case
unfolded, serious questions were raised about its legitimacy, revealing the
“Fascinating. . . . The most shocking fragility of a criminal justice system under great external pressure. In the first
and instructive aspect of Strang’s detailed legal history of this landmark federal trial, Dean A. Strang shows
book is just how blatant and how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to
unvarnished was the justice
stifle radical threats and played a major role in shaping the modern Justice
system’s trampling of what we
Department.
would now consider basic rights.”
—Isthmus
DEAN A. STRANG practices law in Madison, Wisconsin.
He is the author of Worse than the Devil: Anarchists,
Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror.
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Worse than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence
Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
Dean A. Strang
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16 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Education for Democracy
Renewing the Wisconsin Idea
EDITED BY CHAD ALAN GOLDBERG
What is the true role of the public university in a democratic society?
“Goldberg situates the Wisconsin Idea in its historical, educational,
institutional, and political context in ways that enlighten its original
impulses, illuminating its significant contributions to rural and urban
areas and to the very nature of the University of Wisconsin as a university
of the people.”—Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin–Madison
American public universities were founded in a civic tradition that
differentiated them from their European predecessors—steering away from
EDUCATION
the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. Like many such higher education NOVEMBER | LC: 2020013484 LA
institutions across the United States, the University of Wisconsin’s mission, 320 PP. | 6 × 9 | 4 B/W ILLUS.
known as the Wisconsin Idea, emphasizes a responsibility to serve the needs ISBN 978-0-299-32890-0 | CASEBOUND | $44.95 A
of the state and its people. This commitment, which necessarily requires
a pledge to academic freedom, has recently been openly threatened by “An important look back at the
state and federal actors seeking to dismantle a democratic and expansive progressive Wisconsin Idea and a
conception of public service. look forward to its possible renewal.
Using the Wisconsin Idea as a lens, Education for Democracy argues The authors take us through numerous
that public higher education institutions remain a bastion of collaborative ideas and practices that came to be
problem solving. Examinations of partnerships between the state university known as the Wisconsin Idea and chart
and people of the state highlight many crucial and lasting contributions to out a civic vision of higher education
that is badly in need of being
issues of broad public concern such as conservation, LGBTQ+ rights, and
reinvented today.”—Kevin Mattson,
poverty alleviation. The contributors restore the value of state universities
Ohio University
and humanities education as a public good, contending that they deserve
renewed and robust support.
CHAD ALAN GOLDBERG is a professor of sociology at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights,
and Race from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare and Modernity and the Jews
in Western Social Thought.
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17 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Now in paperback
WISCONSIN Wisconsin Sentencing in the
SENTENCING Tough-on-Crime Era
IN THE TOUGH-ON-CRIME ERA
HOW JUDGES RETAINED POWER AND WHY
MASS INCARCERATION HAPPENED ANYWAY How Judges Retained Power and Why Mass
Incarceration Happened Anyway
MICHAEL O’HEAR
Counterintuitive findings about crime and punishment
“Eye-opening.”—Shepherd Express
“Debunks myths surrounding mass incarceration.”—Isthmus
MICHAEL O’HEAR
“Highly recommended to judges, academics, students, or anyone interested
HISTORY in learning more about effective sentencing reform.”—New York Journal of Books
JANUARY | LC: 2016013661 HV
288 PP. | 6 × 9 | 18 FIGURES, 8 TABLES The dramatic increase in U.S. prison populations since the 1970s is often blamed
ISBN 978-0-299-31024-0 | PAPER | $22.95 S on the mandatory sentencing required by three-strikes laws and other punitive
crime bills. In Wisconsin Sentencing, Michael O’Hear demonstrates how political
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dynamics can lead judges to impose harsher sentences. His meticulous analysis
of crime and incarceration in the state—one where judges have considerable
“O’Hear’s carefully qualified and discretion in sentencing—shows that the prison population has ballooned
explicitly contingent hypothesis anyway, increasing nearly tenfold over forty years. Through extensive archival
enjoys robust support in highly research, original public-opinion polling, and interviews with dozens of key
qualified scholarship and in
policy makers, he draws lessons from the Wisconsin system that apply to the
empirical data.”—Wisconsin Lawyer
United States as a whole.
MICHAEL O’HEAR is a professor of law at Marquette University.
He is the author of The Failed Promise of Sentencing Reform and
Prisons and Punishment in America: Examining the Facts.
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Wisconsin and the Shaping Defending the Masses: A Progressive
of American Law Lawyer’s Battles for Free Speech
Joseph A. Ranney Eric B. Easton
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18 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Understanding and Teaching the Modern
Middle East
EDITED BY OMNIA EL SHAKRY
The first guide to teaching this critical history
“This book is unique in its breadth and scope. There is no comparable
volume that offers guidance on teaching the Middle East at the university
or high school level. Chapters include a diverse range of voices, and the
gender balance among the contributors is commendable and significant,
placing it at the cutting edge of academic pedagogy.”—Rachel Harris, editor
of Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Many students learn about the Middle East through a sprinkling of information HISTORY—STUDY & TEACHING
and generalizations deriving largely from media treatments of current events. OCTOBER | LC: 2020004270 DS
This scattershot approach can propagate bias and misconceptions that 384 PP. | 6 × 9 | 10 B&W ILLUS.
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inhibit students’ abilities to examine this vitally important part of the world.
Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East moves away from the
Orientalist frameworks that have dominated the West’s understanding of the The Harvey Goldberg Series for
region, offering a range of fresh interpretations and approaches for teachers. Understanding and Teaching History
The volume brings together experts on the rich intellectual, cultural, social, John Day Tully, Matthew Masur,
and Brad Austin, Series Editors
and political history of the Middle East, providing necessary historical context
to familiarize teachers with the latest scholarship. Each chapter includes easy-
“With the emphasis on the diversity
to-explore sources to supplement any curriculum, focusing on valuable and
of elements involved in the topics
controversial themes that may prove pedagogically challenging, including covered and a conscious avoidance
colonization and decolonization, the 1979 Iranian revolution, and the US-led of ‘essentialist’ approaches, the
“war on terror.” By presenting multiple viewpoints, the book will function as authors individually and the
a springboard for instructors hoping to encourage students to negotiate the volume as a whole succeed in
various contradictions in historical study. presenting analyses that are not
Orientalist or civilizationalist, while
OMNIA EL SHAKRY is a professor in the Department of History at the University avoiding ideological polemics.”
of California, Davis. She is the author of The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and —John Voll, Georgetown University
Islam in Modern Egypt and The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in
Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt and the editor of Gender and Sexuality in Islam.
ALSO IN THE SERIES
Understanding and Teaching Understanding and Teaching
U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and the Age of Revolutions
Transgender History Edited by Ben Marsh and Mike Rapport
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19 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Announcing a New Series
Toward the Final Solution
A History of European Racism
GEORGE L . MOSSE
W I T H A C R I T I C A L I N T R O D U C T I O N BY C H R I S TO P H E R R . B R OW N I N G
Tracing the horrifying outcomes of discrimination
“Mosse claims once again his place in modern historiography as the
foremost explicator and demythologizer of ideas which have inflamed
and energized men’s minds and worked irreversible evil in human history.
. . . Mosse has produced a strikingly original work whose conceptual
brilliance and analytic keenness will surely make it the indispensable work
on European racism.”—Commentary
HISTORY
SEPTEMBER LC: 2020013200 HT “This is a grim book, and I wish it weren’t such a necessary one. . . .
296 PP. | 6 × 9 | 15 B/W ILLUS. Mosse tells the story well.”—Boston Globe
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Originally published in 1978, Toward the Final Solution was one of the first
in-depth studies of the evolution of racism in Europe, from the Age of
The Collected Works of George L. Mosse Enlightenment through the Holocaust and Hitler’s Final Solution. George L.
Mosse details how antisemitism and dangerous prejudices have long existed
in the European cultural tradition, revealing an appalling and complex history.
“Mosse has done more than any
other historian to trace racism to With the global renewal of extreme, right-wing nationalism, this instrumental
its intellectual and social roots. . . . work remains as important as ever for understanding how bigotry impacts
A brilliant study.”—Publishers Weekly political, cultural, and intellectual life. This edition of Mosse’s classic book
includes a new critical introduction by Christopher R. Browning, author of
“A talented historian entered Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland.
a neglected field of study and
opened the doors of serious
GEORGE L. MOSSE (1918–99) was a legendary scholar,
scholarship to a topic that will no
teacher, and mentor. A refugee from Nazi Germany,
longer be sidestepped by others
he joined the Department of History at the University of
too timid to lead. . . . A pioneering
volume of great significance.” Wisconsin–Madison in 1955, where he was both influential
—Annals of the American Academy and popular. Mosse was an early leader in the study of
modern European cultural and intellectual history, the study of fascism, and
the history of sexuality and masculinity. Over his career he authored more
than two dozen books.
FORTHCOMING IN THE SERIES
SPRING 2021 FALL 2021
The Crisis of German Ideology: The Fascist Revolution:
Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich Toward a General Theory of Fascism
George L. Mosse George L. Mosse
With a critical introduction by Steven E. Aschheim With a critical introduction by Roger Griffin
20 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Announcing a New Series
Nationalism and Sexuality
Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms
in Modern Europe
GEORGE L . MOSSE
W I T H A C R I T I C A L I N T R O D U C T I O N BY M A RY LO U I S E R O B E R T S
A modern classic on the complex relationship between cultural norms
and political ideology
“Insights abound in this remarkable book. . . . It is not an easy task to
discuss and integrate nationalism, racism, fascism, homosexuality, and
stereotypes of respectability simultaneously, but Mosse has succeeded
admirably.”—American Journal of Sociology
HISTORY
“This interesting, well-illustrated, timely volume will, in short, give most SEPTEMBER | LC: 2020013738 HQ
readers much to think about.”—German Studies Review 248 PP. | 6 × 9 | 20 B&W ILLUS.
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“Mosse provides a powerful statement of how a new culture was
formed.”—Journal of Modern History
The Collected Works of George L. Mosse
This landmark work by George L. Mosse, first published in 1985, examines
the history of sexuality through the lens of bourgeois respectability and
“Mosse is right in saying that
nationalism. Using a daring breadth of German and English sources,
insufficient attention has been
Nationalism and Sexuality pioneered the use of gender stereotypes as a
paid to the role that sexual
methodology for studying the history of sexuality in mainstream European
respectability played in the
history. Mosse’s innovative inquiries on gender remain central to discussions intensification of nationalism
about modern constructions of national belonging and the workings of and the rise of fascism. This
the state. This edition of Mosse’s classic volume includes a new critical unpretentious but useful book
introduction by Mary Louise Roberts, whose books include What Soldiers Do: helps correct that deficiency.”
Sex and the American GI in World War II France. —American Historical Review
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF GEORGE L. MOSSE makes available
for a new generation of scholars and students the indispensable
work of a historian whose moral and intellectual clarity helped
illuminate the conditions that gave rise to some of the modern
world’s greatest catastrophes.
21 T HE UNIV ER SI T Y O F WISCO NSIN PR ESS FA L L 2 0 2 0Laughter and Civility
The Theater of Emma Gad
LYNN R. WILKINSON
A new introduction to an important female dramatist
“This book is truly a gem. Wilkinson’s research is entirely original—this is
a pioneering study that skillfully and methodically maps out Emma Gad’s
entire dramatic production. Gad deserves a readership for her entertaining
plays and Wilkinson’s study successfully brings the relevance of her work
into focus.”—Marianne Stecher, University of Washington
Emma Gad (1852–1921) was a prolific Danish playwright at the turn of the
twentieth century. With sparkling prose and witty dialogue, Gad’s ambitious
PERFORMING ARTS / THEATER
NOVEMBER | LC: 2020004179 PT and sophisticated theatrical productions raised important and still pressing
328 PP. | 6 × 9 | 19 B/W ILLUS. questions about sexuality and morality—including the status of women in
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she engaged with contemporaries like Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, and
“Wilkinson succeeds in bringing George Bernard Shaw, yet she is primarily remembered for her etiquette
Emma Gad from the shadows of book, Takt og Tone.
literary history into the spotlight. Laughter and Civility, the first biographical and scholarly volume to
A contemporary of Ibsen, Shaw, examine and contextualize her dramas, deeply explores how and why
and Wilde, Gad was a highly influential women are so often excluded from the canon. Lynn R. Wilkinson
successful playwright and cultural provides insightful readings into all twenty-five of Gad’s plays and
mediator in the Copenhagen of demonstrates how writers and intellectuals of the time, including Georg and
Edvard and Georg Brandes. Edvard Brandes, took her critically acclaimed work seriously. This volume
This book will be useful to anyone rightfully reinstates Emma Gad’s work into the repertory of European drama
interested in European intellectual
and is crucial for scholars interested in turn‐of‐the‐century Scandinavian
history and the history of
drama, literature, culture, and politics.
theater.”—Susan C. Brantly, University
of Wisconsin–Madison
LYNN R. WILKINSON is an associate professor of Germanic studies at
the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Anne Charlotte Leffler
and Modernist Drama: True Women and New Women on the Fin-de-Siècle
Scandinavian Stage and The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel
Swedenborg and French Literary Culture.
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The Invisible Jewish Budapest: Echoes: A Dramatic Bagatelle
Metropolitan Culture at the Fin de Siècle Emma Gad
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